Last year I read 60 books, my biggest total in a while.
Many of those were my beloved comics collections, but I did read about 30 biographies/novels/history books.
So let's see if I can build on that this year . . .
JANUARY 2019
THE EMPEROR AND THE APOSTLE* by Lewis Smith (me) - Unpublished (as yet) novel I finished in August, and just re-read in its entirety before sending it off. Dang, I'm good!!)
THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII by Alison Weir
THE FUZZY BUNCH by Darby Conley*
FEBRUARY 2019
ALEXANDER HAMILTON by Donald Charnow
SCRUM BUMS by Darby Conley*
MANHUNT: THE 12 DAY SEARCH FOR LINCOLN'S KILLER by James Swanson
FOX TROT SUNDAES by Bill Amend
MARCH 2019
ALEXANDER OF MACEDON, 356-323 BC: A Historical Biography by Peter Green
BC: IT'S A FUNNY WORLD by Tom Hart*
ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S REVOLUTION: HIS VITAL ROLE AS WASHINGTON'S CHIEF OF STAFF by Philip Tucker
BLOOM COUNTY EPISODE XI: A NEW HOPE by Berkeley Breathed*
APRIL 2019
FIRE AND BLOOD by George R.R. Martin
GIDEON'S CORPSE by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
THIS IS THE PART WHERE YOU PRETEND TO ADD VALUE by Scott Adams
REINVENTING JESUS: HOW CONTEMPORARY SKEPTICS MISS THE REAL JESUS AND MISLEAD POPULAR CULTURE by Ed Komoszewski, James Sawyer, and Daniel Wallace
MAY 2019
I'M TEMPTED TO STOP ACTING RANDOMLY by Scott Adams
ANOTHER DAY IN CUBICLE PARADISE by Scott Adams
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH by William Shirer
JUNE 2019
FREEDOM IS ANOTHER WORD FOR PEOPLE FINDING OUT YOU'RE USELESS by Scott Adams
THE WORLD OF FIRE AND ICE by George R.R. Martin and others
THE FLOURESCENT LIGHT GLISTENS OFF YOUR HEAD by Scott Adams
THE LAST CENTURION by Johnny Ringo
JULY 2019
TEAMWORK MEANS YOU CAN'T CHOOSE WHICH SIDE IS RIGHT by Scott Adams
HOW'S THAT UNDERLING THING WORKING OUT FOR YOU by Scott Adams'
WAR OF WARS: The Epic Struggle Between England and France, 1789-1815 by Robert Harvey
*Repeat read
AUGUST 2019
DON'T STAND WHERE THE COMET IS ASSUMED TO STRIKE OIL by Scott Adams
THE INVASION OF CANADA, 1812-13 by Pierre Berton
SEPTEMBER 2019
THE CITY OF ENDLESS NIGHT by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
FOURTEEN YEARS OF LOYAL SERVICE IN A FABRIC COVERED BOX by Scott Adams*
BRAND SPANKIN' NEW DAY by Berkeley Breathed
OCTOBER 2019
HENRY II by W.L. Warren
HORROR: THE BEST OF THE YEAR 2006 EDITION edited by John Betancourt and Sean Wallace
EISENHOWER: SOLDIER, GENERAL OF THE ARMY, PRESIDENT-ELECT by Stephen Ambrose
THE GNOSTIC LIBRARY by Lewis Ben Smith (Yes, I like to go back and re-read the books I have written. Don't judge me!)
NOVEMBER 2019
YOUNG WASHINGTON: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father by Peter Stark
NERO: EMPEROR IN REVOLT - Michael Grant
ALEXANDER TO CONSTANTINE: ARCHEOLOGY IN THE LAND OF THE BIBLE by Eric Meyers and Mark Chancey
THE RELIC by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston *
A WARNING by Anonymous (A Senior Trump Administration Official)
DECEMBER 2019
THE GREAT BIG BOOK OF HORRIBLE THINGS by Matthew White*
THE INSTITUTE by Stephen King
BLOOM COUNTY: BEST READ ON THE THRONE by Berkeley Breathed
UNION 1812 by A.J. Langguth
SUBTERRANEAN by James Rollins
THE DEVIL'S CROWN by James Rollins
THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE by Stephen King
In 2109, I'll be 142: I don't think I'll have any eyes left by then. :wink:
Hopefully by then, the South African cricket team will have won a tournament, the Olympics will have been held here and so on :wink:
Trevor, I cast the chicken bones, looked deep into the future and I have some good news for you.
In 2109, the South African Cricket Team have won the world championships. For Tiddlywinks and got Bronze Medal in Snakes & Ladders.
Oh, well, it got people to respond. Let me fix it!!!
Quote from: Dark Alex on January 03, 2019, 08:41:27 AM
Trevor, I cast the chicken bones, looked deep into the future and I have some good news for you.
In 2109, the South African Cricket Team have won the world championships. For Tiddlywinks and got Bronze Medal in Snakes & Ladders.
:teddyr: :teddyr:
The only - and I mean only - SA sports team that's never let me down is our national Paralympic team. Those men and women return from the Olympics with arms full of medals and they don't let their so-called disabilities get in the way of winning. They make me very, very proud. :cheers:
Quote from: indianasmith on January 03, 2019, 11:27:45 AM
Oh, well, it got people to respond. Let me fix it!!!
:wink: :wink:
The Trench - Steve Alton.
Origins of the Specious - Evolution by Random Selection - James Desborough.
Begun in 2018, finished in 2019 - "The Man Who Spoke Snakish," Andrus Kivirähk
2019:
"The Asylum of Dr. Caligari" by James Morrow
"Revelation X: The 'Bob' Apocryphon" by the Subgenius Foundation
The Aeneid" by Virgil
"A Year of Fear" by Brian Senn
"1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die"
The core rulebooks for 3.5 ed D&D, as well as the Arms & Equipment Guide. I have the funny feeling I'll be checking them a lot this year.
Late last year, I started on Dean Koonz's Frankenstein series and am currently on the second volume. I got Brandon Sanderson's Reckoners Trilogy for Christmas, so I'll be taking a crack at it in the near future. The Psychotronic Video Guide is something I've been using for bedtime reading, since the short entries make it easy to put down when I get too tired to read. And I've been sporadically working my way through Tom Holland's translation of Herodotus.
Bumping this. Not sure if it's worthy of a pin but I could be convinced...
Bumping again.
The Magic Engineer by L. E. Modesitt.
Bump!
I try to re-read a Jane Austen book every year, and this summer it was Persuasion. Austen is one of those writers who reveals some new depth of genius with each reading. Would that she'd had more time. (And may Heaven have a library's worth of her books!)
The Cross Time Engineer.
A Just Determination - JAG in Space. Jack Campbell.
Bump.
'War' & 'Peace' by Joe Haldeman.
One last BUMP! to finish the year.